There was drama when a group of mourners
stormed the home of a murder suspect and set his house on fire in Baricho,
Kirinyaga County.
The group had earlier on passed by the local Baricho
police station and briefly dumped a coffin with the body of a 28-year-old
bodaboda rider who had been murdered in the area.
Joseph Nguru Munyaro was allegedly murdered
and his body dumped in Kiwe River at Mukithi along the Ndia-Kirinyaga Central constituencies
border.
Angry mourners who were going home from Kerugoya
mortuary dumped the body at the station and caused a fracas for about two
hours.
The mourners accused police of failing to arrest
key suspects. They later picked up the body and left.
Nguru was a bodaboda rider at Kiaga trading
centre in Kirinyaga Central constituency, and his new motorcycle was found at
the location where his body was dumped.
Mourners left the station after they addressed
the media, went to the suspect's homestead and set his property on fire.
They also made away with his chicken.
Ndia police boss Jos Mudavadi said police have
launched investigations and urged residents to record statements.
Cases of arson by mobs have been on the rise in
the area amid efforts to address the menace.
Meanwhile, police in Kithimu village, Embu
County are investigating murder after the body of a 70-year-old man was found
hanged in his bedroom.
The incident had earlier been reported as a
suicide but after a probe, police concluded Joseph Mvungo was murdered.
Police visited the scene and established the
man had been hanged on a binding wire on a ceiling frame and had a fresh deep
cut on the back of the head.
There was blood on the floor and the bed.
Police said the son and wife of the deceased
were arrested for interrogation over the murder.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending
autopsy and investigations after the July 9 incident.
